By Lee Davis
There was a time when Spain Park softball wasn’t a very big deal.
“Before we got here they even gave an award if a girl just dived for a fly ball in the outfield,” Lady Jaguar coach C.J. Hawkins recalled. “We had to change that mindset from the very beginning.”
The mindset did change, and a decade later, Spain Park is one of the state’s elite softball programs. … [Read more...]

By Lee Davis
Mary Katherine Tedder already was a softball veteran when she earned a spot on the Spain Park varsity team as a mere seventh-grader five years ago.
Tedder was a softball prodigy as a child, having first played at the age of four. By her eighth birthday, she was playing travel ball. So by the time Tedder was 12, she was ready for the rigors of the game at the high … [Read more...]

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